Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Transcendental System of Values?
"No one knows yet, unless it be he who creates. He, however, creates man's goal and gives the earth its meaning and its future," says nicha in a passage from his book "The Art of War" The overman really is something that is, in a sense, within you,. It is an extrapolation, is elaboration, of virtue that is already in yourself. So i think there is supposed to be a connection to people's actual attempts to be virtuous. But when most people actually attempt it, no matter how impressive are, they end up being some kind of shambling higher man.
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